In Case You Were Wondering...

I'm AWESOME at bowling!!!!!

There's No Place Like Home

Every time I see this sign it warms my heart. The reason: Home Avenue takes me to MY home! What a coincidence!

There really is no place like home.

Sorry Boys

My heart was stolen 4 years ago by some fierce competition, and I haven't gotten it back yet.

Check out THESE heartthrobs:

Cute AND Wise? That's what I call a whole package!

A Ninja to protect me and draw me pictures? Doesn't get much better than that!

A STUD that will take me to the beach? Sign me up!

And a man who loves outdoor adventures? That's my kind of guy!

To any boys who are currently or may in the future be interested in me:

As you can plainly see, you've got your work cut out for you trying to top THAT! I don't envy you.

High/Low

So, I think I'm just going to do random 5 minute posts for a while until my schedule calms down. But I just wanted to say, its amazingly wonderful how much professors are willing to help me cut corners to graduate in May. Its fantastic! And I'm so grateful.

And figuring out my schedule for next semester, I'm actually going to have time to breathe starting in January! Yay for 18 credit hours!!!! And the past couple of days have been excellent and perfect in pretty much every way for no particular reason.

But as a side note, tonight in the car on the way home from institute I told the girls some funny stories about my family, and I'm sure they were looking at me like I was crazy as I'm trying to drive and can't breathe because I'm laughing so hard. Of course I'm the only one laughing. And as a result, I miss my family! I miss my mommy! And I'm perfectly okay with admitting that fact. I can't wait til Christmas when we're all together again. Christmas?!?! Its too far away! Hooray for next weekend when I get to go home and see my parents, 2 sibs, 2 nephews, and 1 niece full of attitude!

Recommendations

Its been a while since I've had time to post, but I wanted to take a minute and make a good book/story recommendation. A book I'm reading for my Cognitive Neuroscience class is called An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks. That entire sentence is not as boring as it sounds. Its a book with various case studies of people with neurological disorders. The story A Surgeon's Life on pages 77-107 is very worth reading. Its about a surgeon with Tourettes. If you want to understand the life of people with Tourettes better, I think this is a good place to start :)

Hopefully I'll find the time to update you on my marvelous life soon. Until then.

How I Survive College

As I've mentioned before this is a crazy semester! I have been pretty stressed lately with everything to get done and all the information to soak up. So I decided to survive this semester(my second to last as an undergrad!) I am going to have ridiculous amounts of fun on the weekends (except for the ones when I'm behind on homework, like this weekend). Here's an update on the FUN!!!!!!!

Andrea (my previous roommate and one of my best friends) came for a visit my first ultra fun weekend. Lauren is on the left. She is my current roommate and also happens to be one of Andrea's former roommates.

We laughed, and sang, and laughed, and played games, and laughed, and stayed up late, and laughed and laughed and laughed. It was wonderful.

Over Labor Day weekend I spent Saturday through Monday with Eliza (also one of my best friends)!!!! We spent the weekend doing things I had never had the privilege in my sheltered life to do. Such as.....

Eating at Chipotle....

Playing mini-golf......

Watching Sleeping Beauty, playing tons of new board/card games and having tons and tons of fun(I have done that before). It was delightful.

Then, last weekend Andrea came for another fantastic visit and we went CAMPING! I happen to really like camping. And we celebrated 2 of our friends' birthdays.

All in all, this is shaping up to be a fun, busy, but fun, semester. The only downside is that the two people(outside of family) at the core of my social life live 2 hours away, in opposite directions. Luckily I love traveling :)

Dear Meany Face

Today at school someone keyed my car. If I could write a letter to the person who did this, it would go something like this:

Dear Meany Face,
Today you keyed my car. I was already having a bad day, and upon my release from class, I was looking forward to going home and eating a lunch and cheering myself up. Instead I came out to my car and CRIED. Someone should probably inform you that art work is for paper and canvases, not other people's property. I understand we all have frustration sometimes. I would suggest taking a bubble bath or talking it out with a good friend instead of ruining another person's day. So from now on, please leave my poor little car alone. It did nothing to you besides park next to you. And in case you were wondering, I reported you to the police. They may never find you, but whether they do or not I hope you learn a valuable lesson from all this. I know I did: Ride your bike to school from now on.

Thanks for the lesson.
-The girl whose car you keyed, and day you attempted to ruin

P.S. I'm going to enjoy the rest of my day anyways. That'll show you.
P.P.S. Sorry for calling you meany face.